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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Charles Wager, and who was mayor of Ports- 

 mouth in 1726, where he died, and was buried on 

 March 31, 1747. This information would com- 

 plete a most interesting pedigree. A. B. 



The Locke Family (2""^ S. v. 12.)—" Zachary 

 Locke " or " Lok," was probably the son of 

 " Harry Lock," mercer, 2nd son of Sir AVilliam 

 Lock, Kt., mercer to Henry VIIL ; he died in 

 1550. No date of Z.'s birth or death. "Mr. 

 Lok" is mentioned by Dr. Dee in his Diary ^ as 

 follows:— "Sept. 13th, 1580, Mr. Lock brought 

 Benjamin his sonne to me; his eldest son Zacha- 

 rie came with him." He had also a son named 

 Ambrose {Diary, Camden Society, p. 8.). " Mi- 

 chael Lock " was brother to " Sir W. Lock ; " but 

 whether the companion of Frobisher (1577) re- 

 quires proof. " Humphrey L." not known, nor 

 Capt. Daniel Locke, 1724. Pepys's Diary men- 

 tions Matthew L. (son of Sir Wm.) as the " emi- 

 nent composer," alive Feb. " 1559-60, and after- 

 wards." "Elizabeth L." was the 20th child of Sir 

 W. L. Lewis Locke (son of Christopher of Pi- 

 brow), b. 1606, had four wives and thirty-five 

 children. It is reported in the family that he 

 had a great-grandson as old as his own younger 

 brother. John Locke " the philosopher " was the 

 eldest son of Capt. John Lock and Agnes Keen or 

 Keane, daughter of Edmund K. of Wrington. 

 Capt. L. was a lawyer and agent to Col. Popham 

 of Pensford ; he was killed at the siege of Bristol 

 in 1645. The registers of Pensford and Wring- 

 ton would furnish dates relating to the family, 

 which was so numerous that it is difficult to ob- 

 tain a correct pedigree. One, to a certain extent, 

 might be formed from the following references : — 

 Gent's Mag., p. 798., 1792; GenVs Mag., 1791, 



f). 697., part ii. and vol. Ixi. ; Gent's Mag., vol. 

 xi., p. 697., relative to John Locke ; " Autobio- 

 graphy of Sir John Branstoni {Camden Soe.) ; 

 Machyn's Diary, p. 117- (Camden Soc.) The 

 great bookseller at Bristol (Routledge ?) had a 

 manuscript vol. belonging to Capt. Locke, con- 

 taining entries of births, deaths, marriages, &c., in 

 the family, and some receipts in the hand of his 

 son. A. 



The Gookins of Ireland (P* S. vii. 238, 239.)— 

 Capt. John Smith, in his General Historie, says 

 that in 1621, Nov, 22, Daniel Gookin "arrived [at 

 Virginia] out of Ireland, with fifty men of his own, 

 and thirty passengers, exceedingly well furnished 

 with all sorts of provisions and cattle ; " and by a 

 record in Virginia of date Nov. 26, 1626, it ap- 

 pears that Daniel Gookin was then " of Carygo- 

 line, in the County of Cork, within the Kingdom 

 of Ireland, Esq." 



Can J. F. F. of Dublin* identify this person 



[* Our valued correspondent died in Nov. 1855. See 



. & Q." l»t S. xii. 447.— Ed.] 



with the Daniel Gookin mentioned by him, as, "in 

 1620, one of the undertakers in the county of 

 Longford," whose estate of 500 acres afterwards 

 passed to Miss Edgeworth's ancestor ? Does that 

 record show whence Daniel Gookin came to 

 Longford county ? Information is desired as to 

 the time of his^fieath, and of his family. Where 

 can the details of the history of this period in the 

 county of Longford be found ? A list of the un- 

 dertakers (1620) would be valuable. J. W. T. 

 Boston, U. S. 



Aldermen in Livery (2"'^ S. v. 25, 26.) — 



"Fur of black fcojre.— Halliwell gives 'Bogy,' 'Budge- 

 fur,' and under the latter, says it is ' Lambskin with the 

 wool dressed outwards.' " — Arch. Diet. 



Query— In the enactment of Philip and Mary, 

 prescribing gowns for aldermen, is there any pro- 

 vision for defraying the expense of these gowns, 

 or for that of the mayor ? I ask this question 

 because in a late number of the Exeter Flying Post 

 an article appeared respecting the mayor's robe, 

 which it states to be private property, having been 

 purchased by subscription. A. C. M. 



Exeter. 



Crooked Spires (2°* S. ii. 456. 478. ; iii. 18.) — 

 Salisbury spire is said to be out of the perpendi- 

 cular. There was a common tradition in Chi- 

 chester, some sixty or seventy years ago, that 

 the architect who built the cathedral having 

 quarrelled with his foreman, the latter went to 

 Salisbury, and built the spire of that cathedral, 

 which he carried up to more than 400 feet in 

 order to outdo the work of his former master, 

 which was only 300 feet in height. 



As Chichester cathedral was completed early in 

 the twelfth century, and that of Salisbury not 

 until the thirteenth, there is obviously no truth in 

 the tradition, however it may have originated ; 

 but its existence indicates an ancient rivalry be- 

 tween the two spires. A. C. M. 



Exeter. 



Plan of Alexandria (2"^ S. v. 130.)— Your cor- 

 respondent fi will find in Sharpe's Chronology of 

 Egypt, plate xv., a drawing of a Macedonian 

 Chlamys, and a plan of Alexandria. The nature 

 of the site made the resemblance unavoidable. 

 The Chlamys was very like the modern Poncho. 



Lewis Evans. 



Sandbacb. 



The English Militia (2"^ S. v. 74.) — Your 

 correspondent (2""* S. v. 139.) has added the 

 Wiltshire militia to those which served in Ireland 

 in 1798 ; and if Sir Richard Musgrave be correct, 

 as quoted at p. 74., there are still two more Eng- 

 lish regiments to be accounted for, of which I 

 hope some reader of " N. & Q." will supply the 

 names. The Earl of Carnarvon held the Wilts 



